Published 9:04 am, Friday, December 9, 2016

Twitter has been humming with retweets of a video showing a woman taking a bad fall down subway stairs after a man kicks her in the back.

The video was part of an online post by The Daily Mail, which referred to the man as a "German thug." The London-based publication also called the man a "yob," British slang for a young man who is rude, obnoxious and sometimes violent.

Citing local media reports, the Daily Mail said a crowd quickly came to help the woman, who was taken to a hospital after the Oct. 27 attack.

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On Wednesday, Conservative blogger Pamela Geller, author of the Geller Report, also wrote about the subway incident in a post titled "Watch: Woman KICKED down subway stairs by migrant in Berlin." She identified the location as the Hermannstraße city train station and wrote, "Just another sad example of the daily routine in Germany now."

The video showed four young men, one of whom kicked the woman. It's unclear how Geller determined the kicker was a migrant, but most of the retweets of the video included the term. The information has not been verified.

Geller is a notorious anti-Islam activist who, among other things, held a Muhammad-drawing contest in Texas in May 2015. (Visual depictions of the prophet Muhammad are generally considered disrespectful in the Islamic faith.)

Click through this slideshow to see Infamous hate crimes that have occurred in the U.S., elsewhere.

South Carolina Church Shooting

People hug as they pay their respects in front of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after a mass shooting at the church that killed nine people on June 18, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. A 21-year-old suspect, Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina, was arrersted Thursday during a traffic stop. Emanuel AME Church is one of the oldest in the South. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

In this Saturday, Oct. 9, 1999 file photo, a cross made of stones rests below the fence in Laramie, Wyo. where a year earlier, gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was tied and pistol whipped into a coma. He later died. The killers, police said, targeted him because he was gay. Congress passed anti-hate crimes legislation bearing his name in 2009. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Stella Byrd, left, mother of James Byrd, Jr., the East Texas black man who was dragged to his death from a pickup truck in 1998 by three whites, waits as Gov. Rick Perry, center right, signs into law the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, Friday, May 11, 2001. Gov. Perry signed the bill into law which strengthens the penalties for offenses against minorities, gays and others. Also shown is, Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston; Rep. Steve Wolens, D-Dallas, and Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, from left.

A member of the Texas Department of Public Safety stands guard as members of the Ku Klux Klan hold a rally Saturday, June 27, 1998, in Jasper, Texas. The KKK held a rally to denounce the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Members of the Sikh Temple in San Antonio march in the Hills and Dales Community 4th of July parade on the North West side of town.

Members of the Sikh Temple in San Antonio march in the Hills and Dales Community 4th of July parade on the North West side of town.

Photo: Jolene Almendarez/San Antonio Express-News

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Assassination of Civil Rights Leaders, 1960s

FILE-- Pall bearers, including Jesse Jackson, second from bottom left, with the coffin of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King was co-pastor with his father, in Atlanta, April 9, 1968.

Jeanne Tiller, widow of slain abortion doctor George Tiller, hugs a family member during the sentencing of Scott Roeder in Sedgwick County District Court in Wichita, Kan., Thursday, April 1, 2010. Roeder was convicted last January of murdering Tiller's husband, Dr. George Tiller.

Four are killed and 22 wounded in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala.

Birmingham Church Bombing, 1963

Four are killed and 22 wounded in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala.

Photo: Burton McNeely, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

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Mount Zion Church Fire, 1964

A historic marker outside Mount Zion Church in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi briefly tells of the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers. Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney were killed June 21, 1964, following the burning of the church, located, just outside Philadelphia, Miss. The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division reviewed the slayings of the workers and pursued criminal charges. Nine people were convicted. (AP Photo/Rogelio Solis)

In this image made from TV The lifeless body of a shooting suspect lays on the pavement as Danish police forensic officers examine the scene after Danish police shot and killed the man early Sunday suspected of carrying out shooting attacks at a free speech event and then at a Copenhagen synagogue, in Copenhagen Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. The suspect is not yet identified by police. A man opened fire Saturday killing a Danish documentary filmmaker and a member of the Scandinavian country's Jewish community and wounding five police officers in the attacks.(AP Photo / TV2 Norway)

Defendant Anders Behring Breivik with his lawyer Geir Lippestad , left, during the third day of proceedings in courtroom 250 in the courthouse in Oslo Wednesday April 18, 2012. Confessed mass killer Breivik on Wednesday called Norway's prison terms "pathetic" and said the death penalty or an acquittal were the "only logical outcomes" for his massacre of 77 people.

The New Jerusalem Baptist Church was destroyed in a fire October 13, 2014 on the Southeast Side of San Antonio.

New Jerusalem Baptist Church Fire, 2014

The New Jerusalem Baptist Church was destroyed in a fire October 13, 2014 on the Southeast Side of San Antonio.

Photo: Mark D. Wilson/San Antonio Express-News

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San Jose Church Fire, 2014

Deacon Felix Gibson, on Tuesday Jan. 14, 2014, looks through the burned and water damaged items inside the classrooms building at the Greater St. John Baptist Church, which was destroyed by a suspected arsonist in San Jose, Calif. The people of San Jose are on edge after a string of thirteen recent suspicious fires have been set in the early morning hours, burning churches and homes among other buildings.

People hold up candles in prayer in front of the Mid Michigan Singh Sabha in Saginaw Township, Mich., Wednesday night, Aug. 15, 2012. Members of the Sikh community held a candlelight vigil, open to the entire community, to honor of the victims of the Wisconsin temple shooting. (AP Photo/The Saginaw News, Jon Garcia)

Germany has received hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants in the past two years, adding to the 4.8 million Muslims in Germany in 2010. The 4.8 million was the largest number of Muslims in any European country and represented nearly 6 percent of Germany's population, according to the Pew Research Center.